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INDIAN NOTES 
AND MONOGRAPHS 




A SERIES OF PUBLICA- 
TIONS RELATING TO THE 
AMERICAN ABORIGINES 



TWO AXTLER SPOOXS FROM 
ONTARIO 



BY 

ALANSON SKINNER 



NEW YORK 
MUSEUM CF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 
HE YE FOUNDATION 
1920 



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This series of Indian Notes and Mono- 
graphs is devoted primarily to the publica- 
tion of the results of studies by members of 
the start of the Museum of the American 
Indian. Heye Foundation, and is uniform 
With Hispanic Notes and Monographs, 
published by the Hispanic Society of 
America, with which organization this 
Museum is in cordial cooperation. 



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TWO ANTLER SPOONS 
FROM ONTARIO 



BY 

ALAN SOX SKINNER 



TWO ANTLER SPOONS FROM 
ONTARIO 

By Alanson Skinner 

HE two carved antler spoons shown 
in the accompanying plate were 
obtained from graves in Atti- 
wandaron or Neutral cemeteries, 
a having been discovered at Saint Davids, 
Ontario, and b in a burial ground on the 
shore of Lake Me dad, in Went worth county, 
near Hamilton, Ontario. Bone and antler 
spoons, while known in New York and 
Ontario as products of the western Iro- 
quoian tribes, are by no means common, 
since the natives preferred spoons of wood 
and bark, or even used the unworked shells 
of freshwater clams. 

A few bone and antler spoons from New 
York and Canada have been illustrated, 
but all are squat and broad-bowled, like 



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the wooden forms still in use among the 
Iroquois. The specimens here shown, on 
the contrary, are long and slender, and the 
handle of a, from its wavy outline, may ! 
have been intended to represent a snake. 1 
Fig. b is also neatly carved, and in beauty 
surpasses any similar objects in the col- 
lections of the museums of either Canada ; 
or Xew York. 

Consul!: Beauchamp, William M., Horn and 
Bore Tmp'ements of the New York Indians, 
Bulletin 50, New York State Museum, p. 315, 
Albany, 1902. 



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